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I have been trying to make a stable unRAID server as many of you may know for weeks now. I finally got really close to a working build ... down to final parity check complete and usable ... it said key missing or what ever like it always does. So I rebooted to get it back and gone. I have nothing, will not boot. you want to see a grown man cry, ... tons of data loaded and now this.
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My update of what happened. I pulled a fist full of SATA cables out of the box and a SATA controller. I put in a SAS controller and two simple wire bundles. I booted it up and ....
no change ... other than it is twice as fast as it was. unRAID did not even care about the change.
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My update of what happened. I installed the SAS (was SATA) hard drive controller and booted it up with the drives pulled I deemed bad (3x) removed by SN from the identification screen in unRAID. Installed the three new drives and it came up with the error that I had too many drives out of place. So I went over to tools new config and clicked it. Rebooted for good measure and the screen showed me all the normal data is about to get destroyed alerts. I said yup, go ahead and getter done. It came up right away with 70% of my data present, all of it was unprotected, and Parity-Sync and rebuild was afoot for the damaged contents.
That is exactly what I expected to occur and was well within my parameters for this server. That and my write speeds are now double what they were. One day to built Parity is now 6 hours. Two more drives started showing warnings ... so, back to Amazon. I am wondering if maybe this time I go with low end desktop new drives.... I think they would have more life in them time/cost ...
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the three disks that are questionable, two failed, and 1 with relocation of sectors are all headed to the recycling center. Based on this exercise I have strong confidence that the unRAID solution fits me fine. It made it so I could have multiple fails and still worked.
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Good, so I can simply take the drive out of that slot and leave it empty then
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I think, and this is my perception ... unRAID when you say it that way is beautifully simple. Here I was looking for the hidden trap door to drop through for other things, when no, it is unRAID. So, you have no choice to not use the parity portion of the array then? And if there isn't that is fine I think. I feel this fits my needs exactly in that I have a TV server that pumps in new recordings and I can spin those into the raid cache and out to the array on a move. But the entire array is a reader. It serves the 7 TV's in my house. Nothing more.
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since we are talking a lot I thought I would place my diagnostics out there so you can see how bad it really is. it is bad.
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I stopped the transfer I was doing stopped the array and pulled off the bad Parity disk. That was easy, but changing raid level is not clear to me other than a full rebuild.
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To be honest, I would like to mount a NTFS-3g 12TB disk locally to speed up the transfer, but the possibility of losing my master data makes it not worth it.
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it was an experiment to see if Unraid's flavor of it was advantaged over my hardware one, or Windows Storage Pools ... I think I am interested in giving that up now, but I wonder if it would be a matter of starting the build from scratch. I am getting in a new controller and moving some hardware around later this week so I may do that, if I can figure out how to make Unraid do that.
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Let me venture a little further out into my response here. Those drives were hugely over worked and on my bad list for some time. I knew two were for sure goners and one was iffy. They were throwing every possible trait of a bad drive when they were in Windows. I decided to torture them by putting them in an array again, (for the 3rd time). They were a science experiment. Well, they failed as predicted and I plan on going though my process of replacing them to see if the new drives come on line and how much data was lost in the end. Based on their hours of operation they (64 meg of cache) were on 24/7 in a server farm for 11 years before they failed. For me in my servers ... I have been using them a couple of years. The ones I normally get are 128 meg of cache and they tend to be 5 to 7 years old and have tons of time left on them. The ones I just bought were the 128's, but the price was $50 each so they will be a treat for sure. Treat as in they will most likely have some hiccup. They probably have ridiculous hours on them for that price point. It is a media (movie) server so when it fails I pull out my backup server and run my robocopy to put back the damaged and drive on.
Here is my take on life in computing, if nothing ever failed I would never learn anything and life would be boring.
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it sounds like I did not lose any data then. I will continue my data loading, it is not done yet. As for reliable, everything is backed up.
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I tend to use refurbishment hardware so problems are expected. Given the screenshot who thinks replacing these drives with the ones in the mail tomorrow will magically heal it?
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I have two choices:
1. Keep the PCIe card in my other machine and transfer files periodically.
2. Try to make it recognize the card in my Unraid server.
Is there anyone out there that feels there is hope for my #1?
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I plugged in a Logitech dongle and noticed my license got corrupted. I learned it quickly changed to that as my root device and said the config was missing. So, I plugged in a wired keyboard and mouse set. To my surprise it did the same thing. Reboot clears it up. Being new to this, I have to ask what I am doing wrong?
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I have half my drives working off the mother board sockets and half working off a add on disk controller and all are currently SATA. I ordered a LSI Broadcom SAS 9300-8i controller with SFF-8643 cables. If I were on a pure Windows OS I would change them out without blinking. Is there anything I need to be aware of with Unraid?
I think it is time to say I give.
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the old USB would not detect it kept sending me to bios. made a new one and it goes to the logon prompt but the interface is not loading